Florence Alabama Music Enterprises, known as FAME, began in the early 1960's as a pioneering music company founded by three young local entrepreneurs, Rick Hall, Billy Sherrell, and Tom Stafford, who improvised a makeshift studio in a vacant room above the City Drug Store. Its earliest recording sessions launched the careers of Arthur Alexander, Rick Hall, Billy Sherrell, Norbert Putnam, David Briggs, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and many others. After limited success, the partnership dissolved, and Rick Hall took the publishing company and the FAME name in return for the studio equipment, then moved the studio to an empty tobacco warehouse in Muscle Shoals. His next recording, Arthur Alexander's “You Better Move On,” became the Shoals' first worldwide best seller. Over the following decades, FAME recording studios became one of the world's most successful producers of rhythm and blues, pop, and country music, and Rick Hall became known as the “Father of the Muscle Shoals Sound.”